Chapter 5

Chapter 5

I forcefully shook off her hand.

“Oh, for heaven’s sake! We can talk about your stuff later. I have something urgent to handle right now!”

“You’re not going anywhere until you explain yourself!”

Ignoring her, I broke away and sprinted toward Sister River’s Haunted House.

Mother of mercy, his livestream was still running!!!

By now, Jiang Beizhou’s chat had already descended into utter chaos:

“What’s going on? Did the streamer find his mom? Didn’t he say his mom has been missing for years?”

“Holy crap, is that NPC playing the ghost actually the streamer’s long-lost mother?”

“Oh my god! What are the odds? Talk about fate!”

I lunged at Jiang Beizhou, snatched his phone, and immediately shut down the livestream. Behind me, Song Feifei had been clutching my hem with a death grip the entire time; when I lunged forward, she was dragged along and instantly slammed into the ground.

She lay there, grimacing in pain, as she finally realized something was very wrong.

The man in front of her was currently embracing a middle-aged woman who was pale as death, wailing at the top of his lungs. The woman was soaking wet, water literally dripping from her feet.

Most importantly, her feet weren’t touching the ground. She was hovering about ten centimeters in the air.

Being held and cried over by Jiang Beizhou seemed to trigger something in Sister River. Her expression flickered with a sudden, dazed agony.

A moment later, she violently shoved Jiang Beizhou away and let out a piercing, ear-splitting shriek toward the sky.

We’re screwed. Sister River is about to transform!!!

A Vengeful Ghost is different from a common spirit. Ordinary ghosts have weak spiritual power and generally can’t harm normal people.

However, through various twists of fate, a Vengeful Ghost has managed to accumulate a certain amount of spiritual power. Furthermore, most of them died with deep-seated grievances. They are filled with resentment and malice; if no one is there to guide or cross them over, they can easily become malevolent spirits that feast on human flesh and blood.

When Jiang Beizhou was shoved, he happened to roll right next to Song Feifei.

By now, Sister River had transformed into the terrifying form she held at the moment of her death.

Her frail body began to swell rapidly like an inflating balloon. Her hair rose strand by strand, floating as if an industrial blower were positioned behind her.

Her once delicate and pretty face was now covered in blood.

Her beautiful almond eyes had been replaced by two bloody sockets, one of which was crawling with writhing, squirming leeches.

She shrieked and stuck out her tongue, but the tip was flat-as if it had been sliced off by a blade.

I stared at her in shock.

This… she had her eyes gouged out and her tongue cut off while she was still alive!

Song Feifei was petrified. She stared blankly at the Vengeful Ghost, feeling her heart hammering so hard it felt like it would jump out of her throat.

Paralyzed by sheer terror, she couldn’t even make a sound. Her legs had long since turned to jelly, leaving her slumped on the ground, unable to move a muscle.

Jiang Beizhou was also reeling from the shock. His lips trembled as he desperately tried to rationalize the situation to himself:

“The hair… there must be a blower back there. She’s floating because of a hidden wire harness… the leeches and the tongue… this must be some top-tier VR technology…”